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Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history”

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/08/why-was-the-most-translated-wikipedia-article-in-the-world-about-a-lover-of-aryan-culture/

Ten years of work to boost one man’s reputation.

ook @discuss.tchncs.de - 4mon

We were unable to get in touch with Woodard, whose personal website is password-protected and only available "by invitation."

Classy

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ChicoSuave @lemmy.world - 4mon

"As an artist who is fed up with much of the pretentious nonsense that has come to define Western culture," Woodard told SF Gate, "I am drawn to the idea of an Aryan vacuum in the middle of the jungle."

"Pretentious nonsense" like pathos in art. Figures that someone who is so self obsessed with his legacy is a nazi. He's got that "Western Civilization" dog whistle in there too.

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